1490

This article is about the year 1490.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1487 1488 1489 – 1490 – 1491 1492 1493

1490 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1490 in poetry

1490 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1490 MCDXC
Ab urbe condita	2243
Armenian calendar	939 ԹՎ ՋԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6240
Bengali calendar	897
Berber calendar	2440
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 7 – 6 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2034
Burmese calendar	852
Byzantine calendar	6998–6999
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4186 or 4126     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4187 or 4127
Coptic calendar	1206–1207
Discordian calendar	2656
Ethiopian calendar	1482–1483
Hebrew calendar	5250–5251
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1546–1547
- Shaka Samvat	1412–1413
- Kali Yuga	4591–4592
Holocene calendar	11490
Igbo calendar	490–491
Iranian calendar	868–869
Islamic calendar	895–896
Japanese calendar	Entoku 2 (延徳２年)
Julian calendar	1490 MCDXC
Korean calendar	3823
Minguo calendar	422 before ROC 民前422年
Thai solar calendar	2032–2033

Year 1490 (MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered as guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté.
• March 13 – Charles II becomes Duke of Savoy at age 1; his mother Blanche of Montferrato is regent.
• July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje (now southwestern Slovenia).
• December 19 – Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.

Date unknown

• Ashikaga Yoshitane becomes shogun of Japan.
• Perkin Warbeck claims to be the son of King Edward IV of England at the court of Burgundy.
• Traditional date of the Battle of Glendale (Skye) between the Scottish clans MacDonald and MacLeod.
• Catholic missionaries arrive in the African Kingdom of Kongo.
• Pêro da Covilhã arrives in Ethiopia.
• Regular postal service connects the Habsburg residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck, the first in Germany.
• Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action in small-bore tubes.
• Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.
• All Saints' Church, the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg is begun.
• The Chinese scholar and printer Hua Sui invents bronze-metal movable type printing in China, although the earlier Wang Zhen had experimented with tin movable type in 1298 and the Koreans had separately innovated bronze movable type.
• Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba is published.
• Aldus Manutius moves to Venice.
• John Colet receives his M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Johann Reuchlin meets Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
• Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).

Births

• February 17 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
• April – Vittoria Colonna, Italian poet (d. 1547)
• May 5 – Kieran McDonald
• May 16 – Albert, Duke in Prussia (d. 1568)
• June 28 – Albert of Mainz, German elector and archbishop (d. 1545)
• October – Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic and writer (d. 1557)
• October 12 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
• November 10 – John III, Duke of Cleves (d. 1539)
• date unknown
  • Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (d. 1556)
  • Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1566)
  • Jean Salmon Macrin, French poet (d. 1557)
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian (d. 1561)
• probable
  • Wijerd Jelckama, Frisian rebel and warlord (d. 1523)
  • Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish painter (d. 1551)
  • Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1567)
  • John Taverner, English composer and organist (d. 1545)
  • María de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, Spanish lady-in-waiting and friend to Catherine of Aragon

Deaths

• January 27 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
• March 6 – Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• March 13 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1468)
• April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
• May 12 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (b. 1452)
• May 22 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (b. 1416)
• August 11 – Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel leader (b. 1465)
• September 1 – Beatrice of Silva, Dominican nun
• date unknown
  • Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist
  • Aonghas Óg, last independent Lord of the Isles